Scattering from conducting open cavities by generalized ray expansion (GRE)

The problem of electromagnetic scattering by metallic open cavities is addressed here using a generalized ray expansion (GRE) method. The wave coupled into the cavity is modeled as a combination of a number of spherical waves, the propagation of such waves being described in terms of geometrical optics. A brief description of the method including some details about aperture discretization as well as results for three-dimensional problems such as circular and rectangular cross-section cavities are presented. The GRE method gives results that agree well with those of modal analysis and allow, like ray methods, for greater flexibility in geometric modeling. Furthermore, the ray-tracing process must be done only once for different incident waves, so its computational cost is lower than that of the classic ray methods, where the incoming wave is described as a different bundle of parallel rays for each direction of incidence